Baumeister And Dhavale Summary

Summary:
In their article, Baumeister and Dhavale argue that despite the common assumption that would-be lovers are the ones to suffer the most from rejection, an idea that is heavily promoted in media, the rejectors, too, suffer as well, oftentimes from confusion as to how to reject love due to the lack of a script, or the guilt of rejecting someone who held good-will towards them, as well as the would-be lovers’ persistence and unwelcomed affections if they would not rejected effectively.

Response:
Although the authors’ mention a lack of an “effective script” as the cause of most rejectors’ confusion as to how to reject the would-be lover’s advances, leading to what they call the conspiracy of silence where rejection is not made explicit,